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American eclipse baron5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() About the Book: On a scorching July afternoon in. A magnificent portrayal of America's dawn as a scientific superpower, American Eclipse depicts a young nation that looked to the skies to reveal its towering ambition and expose its latent genius. David Baron will speak about and sign his new book, American Eclipse, on Thursday, June 29th at 7:30pm. With spellbinding accounts of train robberies and Indian skirmishes, the mythologized age of the last days of the Wild West comes alive as never before. With a good chance of clear summer skies in the central US came a prime. ![]() ![]() On 7 August 1869, hundreds of scientists awaited mere minutes of solar darkness along an eclipse path that stretched from Alaska to North Carolina. And a young megalomaniacal inventor, with the tabloid press fast on his heels, sought to test his scientific bona fides and light the world through his revelations.ĭavid Baron brings to three-dimensional life these three competitors - James Craig Watson, Maria Mitchell, and Thomas Edison - and thrillingly re-creates the fierce jockeying of 19th-century American astronomy. American Eclipse: A Nation’s Epic Race to Catch the Shadow of the Moon and Win the Glory of the World, by David Baron On July 28, 1878, a solar eclipse plunged a swath of America from Montana to Louisiana momentarily into darkness. A coast-to-coast eclipse on 7 August 1869 gave US astronomers a chance to make their mark on 19th-century astronomy. Another - an adventuresome female astronomer - fought to prove that science was not anathema to femininity. In the scorching summer of 1878, with the Gilded Age in its infancy, three tenacious and brilliant scientists raced to Wyoming and Colorado to observe a rare total solar eclipse. ![]()
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